Unearthing Martinelli: How similar is Football Manager's scouting process to football's biggest clubs?

The young person has gone from the Brazilian fourth level to the Arsenal first group in under a year - yet how does the way toward finding him work?

The universe of football moves can be a dinky business.

These days it is regularly about operators, some of whom are as well known as the players themselves, with everybody apparently battling about a bit of the pie.

Yet, scratch underneath the surface a piece and you discover the deep rooted craft of exploring is as yet going solid. For each arrangement that is assembled by companions doing each other favors in high places, there is another that has been sourced through a long stretch of time of research and stringent foundation checking.

Once in a while they don't turn out, yet when an exploring division gets one right it can even now end up being enormously useful for a club.

For a case of that you need to look no farther than Gabriel Martinelli, the Brazilian adolescent who has been absolutely a sensation since showing up at Arsenal in the mid year as a relative obscure.

Martinelli, who was playing state football with Ituano in the fourth level of Brazilian football not exactly a year back, has scored 10 objectives in all rivalries so far for the Gunners during his presentation season in England. It is the first run through an adolescent has arrived at twofold figures in a solitary battle for Arsenal since Nicolas Anelka 20 years back.

What's more, the effect Martinelli has made in north London isn't down to karma. It is down to quality exploring.

Munititions stockpile's enlistment arrange burned through several hours viewing the young person, both in the video suite at London Colney and face to face, while likewise investigating what kind of character he was off the pitch before pressing the catch on the exchange.